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\c 65
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\p
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\q1
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\v 1 "I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek.
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\q1 I said, 'Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that did not call on my name.
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\q1
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\v 2 I have spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people,
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\q1 who walk in a way that is not good, who have walked after their own thoughts and plans!
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\q1
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\v 3 They are a people who continually offend me,
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\q1 offering sacrifices in gardens, and burning incense on brick tiles.
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\v 4 They sit among the graves and keep watch all night,
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\q1 and eat pork with the broth of foul meat in
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their dishes.
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\q1
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\v 5 They say, 'Stand away, do not come near to me, for I am holier than you.'
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\q1 These things are smoke in my nose, a fire that
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burns all day long.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 Look, it is written before me:
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\q1 I will not keep quiet, for I will pay them back; I will repay them into their laps,
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\v 7 for their sins and the sins of their fathers together," says Yahweh.
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\q1 "I will repay them for burning incense on the mountains and for mocking me on the hills.
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\q1 I will therefore measure out their past deeds into their laps."
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\v 8 This is what Yahweh says, "As when juice is found in a cluster of grapes,
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\q1 when one says, 'Do not ruin it, for there is good in it,'
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\q1 this is what I will do for my servants’ sake: I will not ruin them all.
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\v 9 I will bring descendants from Jacob, and from Judah ones who will possess my mountains.
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\q1 My chosen ones will possess the land, and my servants will live there.
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\v 10 Sharon will become a pasture for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for herds,
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\q1 for my people who seek me.
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\v 11 But you who abandon Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain,
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\q1 who prepare a table for the god Fortune, and fill wine glasses of mingled wine for the god called Destiny—
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\v 12 I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter,
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\q1 because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen;
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\q1 instead, you did what was evil before me, and chose to do that which I did not take pleasure in."
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\v 13 This is what the Lord Yahweh says,
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\q1 "Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry;
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\q1 look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty;
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\q1 look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
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\v 14 Look, my servants will shout with joy because of gladness of heart,
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\q1 but you will cry because of the pain of the heart, and will wail because of the crushing of the spirit.
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\v 15 You will leave behind your name as a curse for my chosen ones to speak; I, the Lord Yahweh, will kill you;
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\q1 I will call my servants by another name.
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\v 16 Whoever pronounces a blessing on the earth will be blessed by me, the God of truth.
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\q1 Whoever takes an oath on the earth
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will swear by me, the God of truth,
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\q1 because the former troubles will be forgotten, for they will be hidden from my eyes.
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\v 17 For see, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth;
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\q1 and the former things will not be remembered or be brought to mind.
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\v 18 But you will be glad and rejoice forever in what I am about to create. See, I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and her people as a delight.
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\v 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and be glad over my people;
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\q1 weeping and cries of distress will no longer be heard in her.
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\v 20 Never again will an infant live there only a few days;
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\q1 nor will an old man die before his time.
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\q1 One who dies at one hundred years old will be considered a young person.
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\q1 A sinner who dies at one hundred years old will be considered cursed.
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\v 21 They will build houses and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
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\v 22 No longer will they build a house and another live in it; they will not plant, and another eat;
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\q1 for as the days of trees will be the days of my people. My chosen will fully outlive the work of their hands.
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\v 23 They will not labor in vain, nor give birth to dismay.
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\q1 For they are the children of those blessed by Yahweh, and their descendants with them.
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\v 24 Before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
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\v 25 The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox;
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\q1 but dust will be the serpent’s food.
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\q1 They will no longer hurt nor destroy on all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.
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